Reds 2, Pirates 1: Larry Kopf singled home Edd Roush with two outs in the bottom of the 11th inning as Cincinnati outlasted Pittsburgh at Redland Field. The Reds were first to strike, when Kopf singled and stole second in the 2nd, and then trotted home on Manuel Cueto's double. It looked as if Ray Fisher (4-5) would make that stand up for the balance of the afternoon, but Pirate hurler Babe Adams doubled to begin the top of the 8th and Carson Bigbee followed hot on his heels with an RBI single that tied the score. The two hurlers continued to lock horns into extra frames, with neither team really mounting any sort of nuisance until there were two outs in the home half of the 11th. Roush singled off of Adams (5-1), stole second base, and then slid under the tag of Cliff Lee for the win after Kopf had singled into shallow center. [box]
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| Larry Kopf, Cincinnati |
Pirates 6, Reds 4: Pittsburgh rallied for six runs in the final two innings to turn what appeared to be near-certain defeat into a victory over Cincinnati in the second half of the twin-bill. The Pirates had built a 4-0 lead on the strength of RBI hits from Edd Roush, Jake Daubert and Greasy Neale, and Dutch Ruether was dispatching the Pittsburgh hitters with relative ease. But in the 8th, the Pirates finally mounted a challenge, loading the bases with one out on a pair of singles and a base on balls. Pinch-hitters Walter Schmidt and Walter Barbare forced two across on a force play and a single and Pat Moran had seen enough when it came time to begin the top of the 9th. Jimmy Ring (0-2) came off the bench to take the pill, and got two outs sandwiched around two free passes, but the final Pittsburgh out was hard to come by - two singles and a double followed, and the visitors had turned a two-run deficit into a two-run lead. Frank Miller (3-1) finished off two innings of scoreless relief in the home 9th to convert the comeback into a win. Pirate pinch-hitters went three-for-four with five runs batted in. [box]
Braves 2, Giants 0: Art Nehf stymied New York on just three singles, and Boston took advantage of mistakes to win at Brush Stadium. The visitors took the lead in the 1st on a double, hit batsman, walk and a wild pitch, but could not pad the lead despite threatening Rube Benton (2-4) in the 3rd, 4th and 6th. But Nehf (3-4) was almost untouchable, retiring sixteen of the first eighteen Giants and facing only two over the minimum through seven innings. In the 8th, New York hurt themselves again, with a Heinie Zimmerman error and a balk preceding Nehf's RBI double over the third-base bag and Nehf brushed asdie ten of the final eleven men he faced to keep New York on ice. [box]
Cardinals 1, Cubs 0: St. Louis manufactured a run in the 4th inning and somehow survived five errors to keep Chicago off the scoreboard at Robison Field. Milt Stock singled with two outs in the bottom of the 4th, and scampered to third when Bill Killefer threw waywardly on his stolen base attempt. Hippo Vaughn (4-5) walked the next two men to load the bases and Joe Schultz grounded a ball through the infield to score Stock with what would prove to the game's only run. Oscar Tuero (2-1) and Bill Sherdel were navigating a minefield of defensive non-support - errors in four different innings gave Chicago a chance, but the Cubs hit 0-for-9 with runners in scoring position before Sherdel put them away with 2.1 innings of one-hit relief. [box]
Robins 3, Phillies 1: Zack Wheat's two-run home run in the 3rd inning proved to be the decisive runs as Brooklyn edged Philadelphia. The Robins had taken a 1-0 lead in the 2nd on Ed Konetchy's double and an RBI single from Lew Malone, when Wheat stepped to the plate with two outs in the following frame and Tommy Griffith on first base. The Brooklyn left-fielder belted a George Smith (1-1) offering over the fence on left for this second four-bagger of the season and a 3-0 lead, and hurler Jeff Pfeffer (4-4) then went about the business of shutting the Phils down. holding them to just two hits over the final five innings (and none after the 6th). [box]
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